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Archimedes Archimedes was born in Syracuse, Sicily in 287 BC, fathered by an astronomer named Phidias. Archimedes helped develop many of the formulas used in modern day mathematics like geometry. Very little is known about this famous man other than reports, because it was so long ago that he lived, but he is still to this day known as a great mathematician. It is reported by some authors that he visited Egypt and there invented a …

…plane equilibriums (two books), Quadrature of the parabola, On the sphere and cylinder (two books), On spirals, On conoids and spheroids, On floating bodies (two books), Measurement of a circle, and The Sandreckoner. Although very little is known about him, the achievements Archimedes made were outstanding. He is considered on of the greatest mathematicians of all time by historians and present day mathematicians alike, and we will always use his genius formulas in everyday math.